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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodara, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, the lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but...
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
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"Josh and Amanda just moved into the oldest and weirdest house on the block. It might even be haunted. But their parents don't believe them. You'll get used to it, they say. Go out and make some new friends. So Josh and Amanda do. But these creepy new friends are not exactly what Mom and Dad had in mind.. Because they want to be friends ... forever..." -- P. [4] of cover.
4) Winchester
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Ensconced in her sprawling California mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.
Author
Series
Bad girls don't die novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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When fifteen-year-old Lexi's younger sister Kasey begins behaving strangely and their old Victorian house seems to take on a life of its own, Lexi investigates and discovers some frightening facts about previous occupants of the house, leading her to believe that many lives are in danger.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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There's something wrong with Ashburn House ... The ancient building has been the subject of rumours for close to a century. Its owner, Edith, refused to let guests inside and rarely visited the nearby town. Following Edith's death, her sole surviving relative, Adrienne, inherits the property. Adrienne's only possessions are a suitcase of luggage, twenty dollars, and her pet cat. Ashburn House is a lifeline she can't afford to refuse. Adrienne doesn't...
7) House
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Jack and Stephanie are married, but a tragedy has shaken that marriage to its roots, leaving Jack (an author) bitter and trying to find someone to blame, and Stephanie, an up-and-coming country singer, trying to hide from the past. They get lost on the way to a marriage counseling session and, after getting directions from a sheriff, who has half bully and half Don Rickles, they end up in the middle of extremely rural Alabama with four flat tires...
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What was it like? Living in that house.
Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon,...
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Series
Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the old house proves to be quite dangerous.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 37
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
They're baa-ack! Make way for the bestselling children's series of all time! With a fresh new look, GOOSEBUMPS is set to scare a whole new generation of kids. So reader beware--you're in for a scare!They've got a real head start . . . .Everyone knows about Hill House. It's the biggest tourist attraction in town. That's because it's haunted. Haunted by the ghost of a thirteen-year-old boy. A boy with no head!Duane and Stephanie love Hill House. It's...
13) Starling house
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house--and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling--go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer...
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"A thrilling psychological horror debut about a woman who is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes haunted, no matter the cost... You can survive anything. That's what Margaret tells herself when the walls of her house start to drip blood every September. She's learned how to live with it...and the other terrifying apparitions that have made the sprawling Victorian house she and her husband bought four years ago turn from a dream...
16) Haunted houses
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Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the supposed hauntings of various places, including the former home of Lizzie Borden, the White House in Washington, D.C., and a movie theater in Tigard, Oregon.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by...
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After an unspeakable tragedy, Ava Collette flees from Boston to a remote village in Maine, and rents an old house named Brodie's Watch. The isolated seaside mansion is peaceful-- until she glimpses the long-dead sea captain who still resides there. One night Ava confronts the apparition of Captain Jeremiah Brodie. He feels all too real, and he welcomes her into his world-- and into his arms. Even as Ava questions her own sanity, she looks forward...
19) Hardly haunted
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
When a house believes she is haunted, she tries everything in her power to stop it in order to get people to move in--until she realizes that she is fine just the way she is.
20) A stitch in time
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Pub. Date
2020.
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Thorne Manor has always been haunted and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt's house, where she'd visit William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier. In the wake of a family tragedy, the house was shuttered and Bronwyn was convinced that William existed only in her imagination. Twenty years later, Bronwyn inherits Thorne Manor, exactly when she needs it most,...